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Elliot Landry

Elliot James Landry was a mixed-race Black American and Puerto Rican executive assistant and care coordinator from Pine Hollow, Alabama. In 2032, he began managing the professional, logistical, and medical-support systems surrounding pianist Jacob Keller. Elliot lived with pituitary gigantism, autism, ADHD, and several chronic complications, and he later survived treatment for a low-grade glioma. He died in his late fifties from complications of gigantism-related heart failure.

Early Life and Family

Elliot was born on November 11, 2003, and was raised primarily by his mother, Jazmine Landry. The family experienced persistent poverty and limited access to medical and educational support. His accelerated growth was visibly apparent by preschool, but his pituitary gigantism was not diagnosed until he was fifteen.

School personnel underestimated Elliot’s abilities and directed him toward low expectations rather than providing effective disability support. Jazmine repeatedly advocated for him in education and health-care settings.

Jones Family

Main article: Elliot Landry and Candy Jones

Main article: Elliot Landry and Micah Jones

Candy Jones and Micah Jones first knew Elliot around 2006–2007, when he was approximately three. Candy began providing regular childcare in 2008, when Elliot was five, and she and Micah became his chosen parents. Micah taught him to crack eggs with one hand, called him “Tank,” carried him when pain or exhaustion overwhelmed him, massaged his swollen joints, and adapted furniture as his body changed. Elliot later began calling him “Pops.” Miles Jones and Noah Jones became Elliot’s chosen brothers.

Around 2014, after the Landrys’ apartment became mold-infested and medically unsafe, Candy and Micah bought a home with an attached suite for Elliot and Jazmine. Micah refinished a secondhand full-size bed and continued reinforcing and adapting furniture for Elliot’s access needs.

Sean Landry

Main article: Elliot Landry and Sean Landry

Elliot’s older half-brother, Sean Landry, abused him during childhood and adulthood. In 2019, Sean broke Elliot’s left wrist. Sean later sabotaged Elliot’s CPAP equipment and threatened him with a gun after Elliot began working for Jacob. Elliot subsequently left the shared apartment and legally ended contact with Sean.

Education and Early Employment

Elliot completed high school despite inadequate accommodations and repeated discrimination. He was diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood.

As a teenager, Elliot worked after school and on weekends at J&R Foods, stocking shelves, moving shipping carts, and helping with inventory. Manager Lucille taught him the store’s organizational systems and recognized the accuracy and care he brought to the work. On late shifts, she sometimes made sure he had food and sent him home with an extra bakery cookie after praising his work. He later held construction and warehouse jobs that required sustained physical labor despite his chronic pain, heat intolerance, and joint damage.

2020 COVID-19 Hospitalization

Main article: Elliot Landry’s COVID-19 Hospitalization (~2020) - Event

Elliot developed severe COVID-19 at sixteen or seventeen and required intensive care and mechanical ventilation. The illness caused additional respiratory and cardiovascular damage and required substantial rehabilitation.

P.E. Near-Heatstroke Crisis

Main article: Elliot’s P.E. Near-Heatstroke Crisis (Age 11)

At eleven, Elliot lost consciousness after becoming badly overheated during physical education. The school nurse assessed him as close to heatstroke and began cooling him before the episode progressed further. Noah remained with him in the nurse’s office. Candy, Jazmine, and Micah brought him home, where Micah carried him inside and the family continued cooling him and managing his nausea, vomiting, pain, and exhaustion.

Career

Main article: Elliot Landry (Career and Legacy)

Jacob interviewed Elliot for an executive-assistant and care-coordination position in spring 2032. Elliot completed a trial week in Jacob’s Upper West Side apartment, where he learned the household’s written systems and medical protocols. When Jacob had a seizure on the second day, Elliot provided postictal care and returned the following day.

Jacob hired Elliot after the trial. The position included health benefits, written expectations, flexible scheduling, and accommodations for Elliot’s medical needs. Elliot coordinated Jacob’s schedule, travel, public communications, medical appointments, medications, and seizure-response systems.

The job gave Elliot enough stability to leave Sean’s apartment. Jacob subsequently offered him a room in the Park Laurel apartment.

Health and Disabilities

Pituitary Gigantism

Main article: Pituitary Gigantism Reference

Elliot’s pituitary gigantism was caused by a pituitary adenoma. Symptoms became evident around age twelve, and he was diagnosed at fifteen. He eventually reached six feet eight inches tall and weighed nearly four hundred pounds before later cancer treatment.

Long-term complications included severe arthropathy, chronic pain and stiffness, obstructive sleep apnea requiring CPAP, cardiomegaly, heat intolerance, and progressive mobility loss. His work and home environments required reinforced furniture, climate control, rest access, and pacing.

Autism and ADHD

Elliot received autism and ADHD diagnoses in adulthood. He benefited from written instructions, predictable routines, processing time, and external organizational systems. He used notebooks, shared calendars, and written protocols to manage tasks and reduce reliance on rapid verbal processing.

Low-Grade Glioma

Main article: Elliot Landry (Cancer Journey)

In 2049, at age forty-six, Elliot was diagnosed with a low-grade glioma in the right temporal lobe after back-to-back seizures. Treatment included an awake craniotomy and fourteen months of temozolomide chemotherapy within a treatment period of approximately nineteen to twenty months.

Lasting effects included left-side peripheral-vision loss and mild expressive aphasia when he was exhausted. He continued MRI surveillance after treatment.

Heart Failure and Mobility Decline

In his fifties, Elliot’s cardiomegaly progressed to heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. He later used a power wheelchair for community mobility and received additional physical support for tasks he could no longer perform safely.

Elliot entered hospice in his late fifties and died from complications of heart failure.

Communication and Physical Characteristics

Elliot spoke in a deep, measured voice shaped by Southern Black vernacular from Alabama. He used a more formal register when professional circumstances required it but retained his Southern cadence.

He was six feet eight inches tall, with a broad build, deep-brown skin, short textured Black hair, and very large hands. Chronic joint damage made his movement deliberate and increasingly limited over time.

Significant Relationships

Jacob Keller

Main article: Jacob Keller and Elliot Landry

Elliot’s professional relationship with Jacob developed into chosen family and an ongoing romantic partnership. Elliot coordinated Jacob’s care and career, while Jacob provided a stable, accommodating work environment. Their partnership continued alongside both men’s marriages.

Ayana Brooks

Main article: Elliot Landry and Ayana Brooks

Elliot met Ayana Brooks around 2038 or 2039 and married her around 2043 or 2044. Shortly after his 2049–2050 cancer treatment ended, Ayana became pregnant while Elliot was still recovering. Their twins, Ariana Landry and Adrian Landry, were born prematurely around 2051 and required neonatal intensive care.

Four-Adult Family

Main article: Jacob, Elliot, Ayana, and Ava

Elliot, Ayana, Jacob, and Ava Keller formed a four-adult polyamorous family structure organized around two legal marriages and additional romantic and chosen-family bonds.

Memorable Quotes

“I’m not leaving. Jacob needs someone who stays. I can be that person.”

(Source: Jacob Keller and Elliot Landry; Elliot speaking to Logan during his trial week)

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